‘MAD’, by PABLO GUIDALI at LA FÁBRICA

After the exhibition presented as Diente de Chucho, comes MAD, the second proposal of La Fábrica  for the programming of the Off Festival within PHotoEspaña 2015. The exhibition, named MAD, is the result of the time in which Pablo Guidali lived at the Casa de Velázquez between 2013 and 2014.

25 photographs in black and white shape this exhibition in which the concept of wandering is presented as the author's creative core idea, which takes the city as field of activity. With a previous experimental work in the city of Marseille, the experience in Madrid was presented to Pablo Guidali as a continuation of his artistic work. It was this city that enabled him to pursue this line of development in which the territory, far from being shown as a documentary record of it, comes to us as a creative space.

Madrid became the ideal city where to take his work to its own experimental limits. Its culture, family background, language, rhythm and nightlife, the fact of being a physically embraceable city despite being a "big city" and, especially, the temperament of its inhabitants, give Madrid a great wealth and specificity that Guidali wanted to reflect in his work.

As Cairo Montale said, "If we had to define its own way, we should talk above all about search, about the visceral and insatiable quest for fair confrontation with the world around him. Like a tightrope groping his movements, forcing the distance, keeping some tension with its surroundings, trying to experience a sensual perception directly from their environment. Go and search, then, there, where the living meets the tragic, where everything rushes, to shape an own universe, that far from the reality that creates it, is presented to us loaded with an oneiric and fantastic content."

Dates.- The exhibition will be open from July 9 to August 3 and from August 24 to September 6.
Place.- La Fabrica, Alameda, 9. 28014 Madrid. Metro.- Atocha.